Here (via the Daily Telegraph) is frustrating news for those who had hoped that they would no longer have to worry about their 401ks:
Inhabitants of New Zealand, scheduled to be among the first to meet the apocalypse according to a US fundamentalist preacher, this morning confirmed they were still in existence as the appointed time was reached in their time zone. There were also unconfirmed reports that Tonga has, thus far, failed to boil into the Pacific.
Eighty-nine-year-old tele-evangelist Harold Camping had prophesied that the “Rapture” would begin with powerful earthquakes at 6pm in each of the world’s regions, after which the good would be beamed up to heaven.
This morning, Kiwis confirmed there were no signs of the dead rising from the grave, nor of the living ascending into the clouds to meet Jesus Christ.
Twitter users were disappointed by the absence of Armaggedon.
There’s always 2012 to look forward to, I suppose, but before you get down to the serious business of scanning the skies for Planet X, it’s well worth checking out The Rapture, an early 1990s film with an intriguing, distinctly dark take on the End Times, plus David Duchovny before he was Fox.